Deja vu!
This is peak SEC East football action, folks. For the second year in a row, every single player on both Kentucky and Tennessee got flagged en masse.
Here’s the 2018 edition:
Every player on Kentucky and Tennessee has been assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. One more for anyone on either side equals an ejection. Good move from the officials. This was teetering on the edge of getting out of hand.
— David Ubben (@davidubben) November 10, 2018
Yup, that means if any other player gets another during this game, they will be automatically ejected. After Tennessee scored its first touchdown, there was a bit of a skirmish in the end zone that that officials had to break up that caused the penalty.
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The best part about this is that this same exact thing happened during last year’s game in Lexington.
And of course, the inevitable happened later in 2017, as some players got ejected after a second penalty:
Two more unsportsmanlike conducts penalties and Kentucky's Tavin Richardson and Tennessee's Rashaan Gaulden are DQ'd.
— Patrick Brown (@pbrown247) October 29, 2017
Kudos to both of these teams for sticking firmly to tradition, just a great job all around.